Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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